The veteran in the welfare state: ambiguous, invisible, marginal? A case study of housing homeless veterans.

这个项目调查了英国退伍军人和福利之间的有争议的关系。它认为，退伍军人的不稳定、短暂和矛盾的地位，他们既是英雄，又是威胁，既是救世主，又是责任，脆弱而有能力，从伊丽莎白时代开始就渗透到福利条款中，并在今天继续造成复杂性。使用退伍军人的镜头允许对福利中的男子气概进行讯问，并扰乱了福利申索者明显稳定的观念。除了历史分析，这项研究还将集中在当代老兵住房和无家可归的案例研究上。它将探讨当前的住房危机是否揭示了福利断层，并分析了通过分析这一背景下无家可归的退伍军人的数字，暴露出对当代福利、住房和政治方法的更广泛见解。总体而言，本案例研究将勾勒福利国家和退伍军人之间的发展历史，同时考察退伍军人在当代社会中与福利互动所面临的许多当代困难。关于福利和退伍军人的研究有限，尽管自上世纪90年代中期以来，学术界对退伍军人住房和无家可归者的兴趣有所增加，当时有报道称，伦敦无家可归者中退伍军人的数量不成比例。然而，在地方当局如何履行其对退伍军人的住房责任以及脆弱性概念所发挥的作用(确定住房责任的关键标准)方面，实证研究存在差距。此外，关于住房危机如何加剧了向退伍军人地位过渡的困难，配给如何加剧了对退伍军人定义的争论，或者这些主题如何与福利和住房提供的更广泛背景相适应，几乎没有开展过研究--无论是经验性的还是非经验性的。该项目将通过一个历史、理论和经验项目来填补这些空白，包括一个调查在伦敦向退伍军人提供住房的案例研究。

This project investigates the contested relationship between veterans and welfare in the UK. It argues that the unstable, transient and ambivalent status of veterans, who are simultaneously hero and threat, saviour and liability, vulnerable and competent, has permeated welfare provision from its Elizabethan origins and continues to cause complexities today. Using the lens of the veteran allows for the interrogation of masculinity in welfare and disturbs apparently stable notions of welfare claimant. As well as historical analysis, the research will focus on a case study of contemporary veteran housing and homelessness. It will explore whether the current housing crisis reveals a welfare fault-line, and analyse what broader insights into contemporary approaches to welfare, housing and politics are exposed through analysis of the figure of the homeless veteran in this context. Overall, this case study will frame the history of the development between the welfare state and the veteran while examining many of the contemporary difficulties which the veteran faces in interacting with welfare in contemporary society. There is limited research into welfare and veterans, although academic interest in veteran housing and homelessness has grown since the mid-1990s when the disproportionate number of veterans among London's homeless was reported. There is, however, a gap in the empirical research regarding how local authorities discharge their housing duties to veterans, and the role played by conceptions of vulnerability (a key criterion in establishing housing duties). In addition, little research - empirical or otherwise - has been undertaken examining how difficulties with the transition to veteran status have been intensified by the housing crisis, how rationing of provision has intensified contestation over the definition of veteran, or how these themes fit into the broader context of welfare and housing provision. This project will fill these gaps through a historical, theoretical and empirical project, including a case study investigating the provision of housing to veterans within London.